Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...During that testimony, Greenspan also called "critical" the question of whether a slowdown would "breach the fabric of consumer confidence," and he doesn't need much more evidence than this that it has. He's already made his mea culpa for last May's half-point hike with the surprise half-point cut the first week in January; now it's time to make sure a precipitous slowdown - and an accordingly precipitous drop in mood on Wall Street and Main Street alike - takes on a "V" shape in a hurry...
...economic slowdown threatens to become a recession and the stock market shows all the buoyancy of a crowbar, you may well ask: Can things get any worse? Of course they can. Remember when the Internal Revenue Service regularly tortured taxpayers with backbreaking audits and slapped liens on personal property faster than you could say Schedule C? Well, the Bean Counters from Hell are back and laying the groundwork for a fresh assault...
...Slowdown of the New Economy...
...economic slowdown now, a slowdown that has already turned into a recession in the manufacturing sector. And so when German-American carmaker DaimlerChrysler led Monday's business sections with the announcement that it would be cutting 26,000 jobs over three years, all on the money-losing Chrysler (American) side of the Atlantic, the Street sighed and sold the company's stock down $1.14 to $47 by noon...
...minds of the participants may be even more acutely focused this year, on the anticipated slowdown in the U.S. economy and its global implications. And, of course, the veterans of those failed WTO trade talks will be inclined to use the demonstration-free environment to huddle over ways of resolving the disputes that divide the world's two biggest trading blocs, the U.S. and the E.U. The Europeans are concerned that the incoming Bush administration - which won't have a high-profile presence at Davos - plans to prioritize trade agreements with Latin America, and they fear that a U.S. economic...